Correspondence to Tahlia Alsop, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia; t.alsop{at}uq.edu.au The WHO has called for action to ...

Iliotibial band friction syndrome is a common cause of knee pain in long distance runners. The pain is caused by friction of the iliotibial band over the lateral epicondyle of the femur. Two hundred ...

4 Aspetar—Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar 5 Athlete Health and Performance Research Centre, Aspetar—Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar ...

Correspondence to Dr Jakob Tarp, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo 0806, Norway; jtarp{at}clin.au.dk Background The joint associations of total and ...

In the UK, when a young person dies suddenly, the coroner is responsible for establishing the cause of death. They will ask a consultant pathologist to carry out an autopsy in order to ascertain when, ...

1 Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Football Research Group, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 2 The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden ...

Correspondence to Dr Christopher C Giza, Department of Neurosurgery, UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, Room 531 Wasserman, 300 Stein Plaza, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA; ...

The mechanism of the overhead action in throwing sports has been studied extensively. This motion is unnatural and highly dynamic, often exceeding the physiological limits of the joint. Owing to ...

Chronic groin pain is a common presentation in sports medicine. It is most often a problem in those sports that involve kicking and twisting movements while running. The morbidity of groin pain should ...

1 Institute of Biochemistry, Center for Preventive Doping Research, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany 2 European Monitoring Center for Emerging Doping Agents (EuMoCEDA), Cologne/Bonn, ...

Correspondence to: Dr E C Rhodes, School of Human Kinetics, War Memorial Gymnasium, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada. Objectives—There is a paucity of long term studies on ...

Objective: Hamstring strains are one of the most common muscle strains in athletes; however, complete rupture of the proximal hamstring origin is rare and results from significant trauma. The ...